SC orders Navlakha house arrest within 24 hours, with additional security measures

Trashing the NIA's apprehensions, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered social activist Gautam Navlakha, accused of having links to Maoists and Pakistan's spy agency ISI, to be placed under house......

Biden on course to mend fences with China

'Chinese experts estimate that the new US administration is 'at the crossroads of how to re-manage and control' Sino-American differences and strategic divergences and Biden's bottom line is that......

India, China hold talks again, but no concrete outcome yet

India and China on Wednesday "positively" evaluated the decisions taken at the last round of military talks to defuse the nearly five-month-long border standoff in eastern Ladakh and pushed for......

How Modi tried to manage China & Pakistan

'New Delhi showed itself willing -- at least for a period -- to tolerate the risk of conflict and to withstand Beijing's implicit and explicit threats.''But it also continued to try to cut some......

Anju Seth, IIM-C's first woman director

'She was the unanimous choice of the search-cum-selection committee.'Avishek Rakshit reports. Professor Anju Seth. Photograph: Kind courtesy Anju Seth/facebook.com Anju Seth, an alumnus of the......

How Rajesh Gopinathan came to lead India's most valuable firm

Niraj Bhatt discovers how a CFO 'without a finance background' made it to the corner office at TCS.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The CEO and MD of Tata Consultancy Services, a company......

HSBC to shut down India private banking business

Global banking major HSBC on Friday announced shutting down of its private banking business in India that offers wealth management services. "After a strategic review of our global private banking......

'Minimum government, maximum governance' in public sector banks

The Bharatiya Janata Party regime will have to make good on this election slogan to restore state-owned banks to health, says Rajiv Lall.  Minimum government and maximum governance was one of......

Column: Shilpa has done India proud

It started off as just another series ofa tired, flagging reality show and ended up becoming the most internationally criticisedtelevision show of its time. When I left Mumbai to go home to......

World Cup 2023: India's XI Stunners!

The collective brilliance of the Indian XI in the 2023 World Cup makes a compelling case for each player to be considered for inclusion in every World XI. In a rollercoaster of triumph and......

Readers on whether Ganguly should play

Vikram Shah: Can someone from your organisation lead a discussion on the validity of this penalty, please?Let us not talk about Saurav's form as a batsman as that is not the issue here.Do the rules......

The business of cricket

The performance of the Indian cricket team in Test series played abroad continues to make its fans reach out for antacids. To the average cricket fan, it is incomprehensible how a team that can......